Shisha: A Living Tradition Worth Preserving?
STEVE ROYSTON: While Saudi plans to ban it within city limits; Bahrain is considering loosening restrictions. I’m with the Bahrainis.
The Bahrain Grand Prix Furore: It’s Only A Race
STEVE ROYSTON: There seems to be an unnatural degree of emotion surrounding this year's Bahrain Grand Prix. A sense of perspective? …
‘My Beautiful Bahrain’: An Alternative View
STEVE ROYSTON: Many of us who have decided to settle in Bahrain remain determined to see the positive in spite of the recent troubles…
‘University of Life’: Not Good Enough in Bahrain
STEVE ROYSTON: Bahrain is debating whether a bachelor's degree is a necessity for a member of parliament. It will skew the demographics. …
The State is the Beast: An Angell on Economics
STEVE ROYSTON: An Angell visited the other day. Not one with wings, but a Welshman with a biting tongue and the rhetorical skills of David…
About Steve Royston
People Are Thinking: The Legacy of the Arab Spring
STEVE ROYSTON: We're coming up to the first anniversary of the protests that overthrew Hosni Mubarak. What is…
2012 and Beyond: The Many Reasons to be Both Fearful – and Cheerful
STEVE ROYSTON looks at the arts, society, education, politics, business, technology and the environment as we move into…
Dropping the ‘D’ On the Way to a Better 2012
STEVE ROYSTON: I thought of the Q-less dictionary as words rattled round my head to describe my golf…
Kingmakers, Invention of the Modern Middle East
STEVE ROYSTON: Book Review: Here you'll find the Britons and Americans - proconsuls, agents provocateurs, spies, politicians -…
